Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-12
Crop Summary,

CHICAGO, ILL; aug rue tOIioWIng
crop summary will appear pSttthis weeks
issue of the Farmers Reviews Cur ,e-
ports indicate that the corn CROP has ma
terially suffered throughout the west from
the long continued drouth, Local rains
lave fallen in many I9calit5es since orr
reports reached US, buSitfs questionable
whether the damage to the crop Can be
repaired even by general rains. The crop
IN many paris of the west Is in q most
Iamentsble condition. Wisconsin, Nicn-
igan, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota
and Dakots have suffered less than the
other states. The winter wheat yield in
different states according to reports q
our correspondents, is IS follows: Elf.
/ teen eounties in Illinois, Is > bushels;
7 WSsz6nsln counties, II > ) bushels; Mich
| igan counties, II bushels; twelve Indiana
counties, II % bushels; ten Ohio coun-
ties, AZ bushels. Lame county, Ky, re-
ports the yield st 30 per cent. CT an ay-
I rage; Webster county, 90 per cent, and
/ the others reporting 10 bushels; eleven
Missouri counties, 20 bushels, and eleven
Kansas counties, 10 bushels.
The average yield Of oats in the differ
/ ent states is as follows: Thirteen coun-
ties in Illinois, s. bushels; six WiscOn-
SIN counties, - l-2 bushels; eight Mich
gan counties, 80 bushels; fourteen In
diana counties, Sc bushels; twelve Ohlo
counties, 81 bushels; eleven Missouri
counties, 81 SO bushels; thirteen Kansas
counties, y bushels; sixteen Iowa coun-
/ ties, 81 bushels aAd DakOta counties re-
| port good yield. Average counties CT
crop, "a reported from different states, is
/ follows: Seventeen counties in Illinois
report average condition as 81 per cent.
| Damage by drouth and bugs is general
throughout the state. Dr0uth and in
seCts have not been severe in Wisconsin
end the counties reporting place the aver
| age at - per cent. Fourteen counties
in Indiana report average condition 81 81
! per cent. Damage by drouth is general.
! Dsmage by drOuth ia Michigan is not gen
ersl. Counties reporting place the aver
age condition of crops ct s. per cent.
Bensie county reports no damage by
Groutl and al average condition Of ITO
| per cent. Eleven Ohio counties give an
average Of 50 per cent. Dsmage by drOutl
! is general. Nine Missouri counties re-
port en- average Of so PEI cent, with dam
age from drGuth in every county report
iug, except S.oddard, where the condition
/ of the crop is estimated 1t 90 per cent. Of
/ 81 IftIGSs" SiCp' III ChLES GLu Ny SDs lex
counties, Kentucky, crop is ia tine condi-
! ticn, but othGr counties reporting show
only 30 per cent. Of an average crop,
the dsmsge being from drCuth. Thirteen
Kansas counties repJr. the condition OF
the crop ct g. per cent. Drou.h il the
counties reporting is general with the
| exception Of C0wley, where the average
| CONDITION is ITO per cent. The crop in
/ the esst half q Ness county is good. cut
ruined Gy drouth il the west half. Cbinch
bugs have also damaged the Kansas cOrn
crop. Sixteen cCUrtles IN Iowa report
the condition OF tie corr crop at 90.j per
cent. Of sn average. No damage By
drouih or insects is reported by CerrJ
G0rdc, CLARK, Jones, K2Ssuth and Wood
bury counties. Twelve cou1ties in Mime
sofa report an average Ci IS per cent.
TIE average reaches;or pass 100 per cent.
IN Kicker. BlgstOne, Blue Earth and Sib-
ley counties, but from drcuth ard insects
has fallen away in average. In counties
reporting eight counties II Nebraska re-
port an average Of ~ per cent. No dam
age by drOuth or bugs mas been exDe-
rienced in Bulk, Douglass aud Howard
counties, but mas been severe in other
counties reporting. The corn crop in
Dakota IS good, but some damage is re-
ported from hail and insects.
Potatoes are suffering from continued
drouth. Pastures are in very bad condi-
ton generally, but less so where local
rains have fallen. Prospects for g crop
OF apples ere very slim.